My article on women as targets of Stalin's Secret Police in 1937-1945 is out in Europe-Asia Studies and is open access! Why were so few women targeted in the Great Terror — and what changed during the war? "Semi-Literate, But Understands Political Issues Well”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Semi-Literate, But Understands Political Issues Well’: Women as Targets of Stalin’s Secret Police, 1937–1945
While most literature on female victims of political terror in the USSR focuses on the late 1930s, this article argues that wartime repression against women may have been comparable in scale to the...